Modern Therapist's Consumer Guide: Paubox. HIPAA Compliant Email, Secure Communication, and Practice Privacy. An Interview with Hoala Greevy, Founder and CEO of Paubox

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Curt and Katie interview Hoala Greevy about HIPAA compliant email and secure communication for therapists.

Modern Therapist's Consumer Guide: Paubox. HIPAA Compliant Email, Secure Communication, and Practice Privacy. An Interview with Hoala Greevy, Founder and CEO of Paubox Curt and Katie talk with Hoala Greevy, Founder and CEO of Paubox, about what HIPAA compliant email actually requires, where standard Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 Business Associate Agreements leave gaps, and why most secure-portal solutions fail at the inbox. Paubox is a HIPAA compliant email security platform built to deliver encrypted messages straight to the recipient's inbox, without portals, plugins, or extra clicks. Hoala explains how Paubox wraps around the email systems therapists already use, why domain ownership and TLS encryption matter, and how inbound threats like display-name spoofing affect small practices. The conversation also covers HITRUST certification, AI scraping, the Paubox Foundations, the Paubox Kahikina Scholarship supporting Native Hawaiian students in STEM, and how to evaluate a HIPAA compliant email vendor on security, reliability, and ease of use. This episode is part of our Modern Therapist's Consumer Guide series. While this interview is a paid partnership, our discussion and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Curt Widhalm, Katie Vernoy

Guest: Hoala Greevy

Topics covered

• HIPAA compliance
• secure communication
• email security
• practice privacy
• encryption
• vendor evaluation

Keywords

• HIPAA compliant email
• secure email delivery
• TLS encryption
• Google Workspace
• Microsoft 365
• email security
• practice privacy
• vendor evaluation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Paubox, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, HITRUST, Paubox Foundations, Paubox Kahikina Scholarship

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